"brazier. However, this was later cited as a positive feature of the programme's daring scripts in ""Britain's Best Sitcom"" by its advocate Rowland Rivron. The programme was censured, however, for a scene in the episode ""Hearts of Darkness"" in which an elderly resident is abused in an old people's home, and following complaints, the scene was slightly cut when the episode was repeated. In the DVD commentary for the episode, David Renwick stated his continued opposition to the cuts. Another controversial scene in the episode ""Tales of Terror"" saw the Meldrews visit Ronnie and Mildred on the understanding that Mildred"
"One Foot in the Grave (album) One Foot in the Grave is the fourth studio album by American musician Beck, released on June 26, 1994 by K Records. It was recorded prior to the release of ""Mellow Gold"", but was not released until after that album had met critical and commercial success. ""One Foot in the Grave"" shows strong lo-fi and folk influences, and features several songs that are interpolations or covers of songs popularized by artists such as Skip James and The Carter Family. ""One Foot in the Grave"" features production, songwriting, and backing vocal assistance by Calvin Johnson,"
"featured in the 2003 film ""Holes"". Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers would cover the track ""Asshole"" on the 1996 soundtrack album ""Songs and Music from ""She's the One"""". One Foot in the Grave (album) One Foot in the Grave is the fourth studio album by American musician Beck, released on June 26, 1994 by K Records. It was recorded prior to the release of ""Mellow Gold"", but was not released until after that album had met critical and commercial success. ""One Foot in the Grave"" shows strong lo-fi and folk influences, and features several songs that are interpolations or covers"
"One Foot in the Grave (Tankard album) One Foot in the Grave is the seventeenth studio album by the German thrash metal band Tankard. It was released on 2 June 2017, on the Nuclear Blast label. ""Metal Hammer"" Germany called the track ""Arena of the True Lies"" a catchy continuation of the band's previous album ""R.I.B"" and cited ""Syrian Nightmare"" as being singer Gerre's expression of anger about the current political situation in the Middle East. The reviewer for ""Rock Hard"", too, praised the album as being catchy with strong lyrics, although he found the riffs too unoriginal for a"
"thrash release. One Foot in the Grave (Tankard album) One Foot in the Grave is the seventeenth studio album by the German thrash metal band Tankard. It was released on 2 June 2017, on the Nuclear Blast label. ""Metal Hammer"" Germany called the track ""Arena of the True Lies"" a catchy continuation of the band's previous album ""R.I.B"" and cited ""Syrian Nightmare"" as being singer Gerre's expression of anger about the current political situation in the Middle East. The reviewer for ""Rock Hard"", too, praised the album as being catchy with strong lyrics, although he found the riffs too unoriginal"
"Myles Rudge Myles Peter Carpenter Rudge (8 July 1926 – 10 October 2007) was an English songwriter, known for writing the lyrics for novelty songs. His songs ""Hole in the Ground"" and ""Right Said Fred"" were both British Top 10 chart hits in 1962, both recorded by Bernard Cribbins to music by Ted Dicks and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. Another of his songs, ""A Windmill in Old Amsterdam"", was a hit in 1965 for Ronnie Hilton, and won an Ivor Novello Award in 1966 for the Year’s Outstanding Novelty Composition. Rudge was born in Bristol, England, where his"
"The Grave (poem) The Grave is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. It is the work for which he is primarily renowned. According to Blair, in a letter he wrote to Dr. Dodderidge, the greater part of the poem was composed before he became a minister, Edinburgh editor and publisher John Johnstone stating that it was composed whilst he was still a student, although ""probably corrected and amplified by his more matured judgement"". The poem, 767 lines long, is an exemplar of what became known as the school of graveyard poetry. Part of the poem's continued"
"band Doomsword. All songs by Cirith Ungol, except where indicated One Foot in Hell One Foot in Hell is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Cirith Ungol. The original LP was produced by Brian Slagel and Cirith Ungol. It was released in August 1986 on Metal Blade Records and re-released in March 1999 by Metal Blade Records on CD. Greg Lindstrom said in an interview: It's an excellent album although I thought the songs overall were not as strong as ""King of the Dead"", and Flint’s bass seems to have gotten lost in the mix. The"
"""Crossroads"". He was survived by his wife and their son. Ted Dicks Ted Dicks (5 May 1928 – 27 January 2012) was an English composer. He is best known for composing the music for the novelty songs ""Right Said Fred"" and ""The Hole in the Ground"". They were both Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1962, recorded by Bernard Cribbins with lyrics by Myles Rudge, and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. Another song by Dicks and Rudge, ""A Windmill in Old Amsterdam"", was a million-seller hit in 1965 for Ronnie Hilton. Dicks was born in Muswell"
"One Foot in Hell One Foot in Hell is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Cirith Ungol. The original LP was produced by Brian Slagel and Cirith Ungol. It was released in August 1986 on Metal Blade Records and re-released in March 1999 by Metal Blade Records on CD. Greg Lindstrom said in an interview: It's an excellent album although I thought the songs overall were not as strong as ""King of the Dead"", and Flint’s bass seems to have gotten lost in the mix. The song ""Nadsokor"" was covered by the Italian epic doom metal"
"Ted Dicks Ted Dicks (5 May 1928 – 27 January 2012) was an English composer. He is best known for composing the music for the novelty songs ""Right Said Fred"" and ""The Hole in the Ground"". They were both Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1962, recorded by Bernard Cribbins with lyrics by Myles Rudge, and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. Another song by Dicks and Rudge, ""A Windmill in Old Amsterdam"", was a million-seller hit in 1965 for Ronnie Hilton. Dicks was born in Muswell Hill, North London, England. His father was a postman. Dicks"
"The Hole in the Ground ""The Hole in the Ground"" was a comic song which was written by Myles Rudge and composed by Ted Dicks. When recorded by Bernard Cribbins and released by EMI on the Parlophone label in 1962, it was a number nine hit in the UK Singles Chart and remains his highest charting and the most successful of his three hit singles, staying on the chart for 13 weeks. The song is about a dispute between a workman digging a hole and an officious busybody wearing a bowler hat. This exemplifies British class conflict of the era"
"In the Vault ""In the Vault' is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on September 18, 1925 and first published in the November 1925 issue of the amateur press journal ""Tryout"". George Birch, undertaker for the New England town of Peck Valley, finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring. When Birch stacks the coffins to reach a transom window, his feet break through the lid of the top coffin, injuring his ankles and forcing him to crawl out of the vault. Later, Dr. Davis"
"A Decade in the Grave A Decade In The Grave is a box set (4 CDs + 1 DVD) by death metal band Six Feet Under. It was released in 2005 on Metal Blade Records. Ten years after the formation of Six Feet Under, Metal Blade celebrated the band's longevity with ""A Decade in the Grave"", a five-disc box set (four audio CDs plus a DVD). The first two discs is SFU's best-of, disc three contains rare demos as well as live performances, while the fourth disc contains demos and rehearsal material by Leviathan (the band Barnes sang for before"
"Margaret Larkin Margaret Larkin (July 7, 1899 – May 7, 1967) was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activist. She wrote ""The Hand of Mordechai"" on a kibbutz in Israel and its stand against the Egyptian Army in 1948, ""Seven Shares in a Gold Mine"" about a murder conspiracy in Mexico, and the ""Singing Cowboy"", a collection of Western folk songs. She won awards for her poem ""Goodbye—To My Mother"" and her play ""El Cristo"". Larkin was born on July 7, 1899 in Las Vegas, New Mexico to parents from English and Scottish descent. She studied at"
"Hole in My Shoe ""Hole in My Shoe"" is a song by English rock band Traffic which as a single release reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, number 22 in the German charts, and number 4 in Canada in 1967. Composed by guitarist Dave Mason, it was disliked by the other three members of the group who felt that it did not represent the band's musical or lyrical style. In the BBC sitcom ""The Young Ones"", Neil, one of the principal characters, often sang a line from the song. Eventually, in July 1984, Nigel Planer, who played Neil,"
"One in a Million (Guns N' Roses song) ""One in a Million"" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses. It is the eighth track on the album ""G N' R Lies"" and was released in 1988. The lyrics describe Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose's experience of getting hustled in the Greyhound bus station upon first arriving in Los Angeles. The song is notable not only for its controversy, but also for being one of the first Guns N' Roses songs that Axl Rose wrote solo. According to interviews, Rose wrote ""One in a Million"" on guitar"
"Silence of the Grave Silence of the Grave (""Icelandic: Grafarþögn"") is a crime novel by Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indriðason. Set in Reykjavík, the novel forms part of the author's regionally popular Murder Mystery Series, which star . Originally published in Icelandic in 2001, the English translation by Bernard Scudder, in 2005, won the British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award for best crime novel of the year. The novel has the distinction of being the last ever to do so, as the award was renamed in 2006. Human bones are found buried in a construction site in Grafarholt. The police"
"Tone's Grave Tone's Grave, often referred to as ""Bodenstown churchyard"", was written by Thomas Davis (1814-1845), the Young Ireland leader, and published first in their newspaper """"The Nation"""". It was written following his visit to the grave of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown, County Kildare c. 1843 when he found Tone's grave unmarked but guarded by a local blacksmith who would allow nobody to set foot on it. The song mourns the failure of the United Irishmen and the loss of leaders like Wolfe Tone but hints at the impending awakening of Irish nationalism much hoped for by the Young Ireland"
"His number one hit is credited with making the poem famous. Edgel Groves Edgel Groves is a recording artist/singer/songwriter who recorded the Hit single ""Footprints in the Sand"" based on the anonymous poem of the same name. in 1981. The song sold millions of copies and the record was #1 in ""country music"" and was a cross over hit and became #1 in Christian and country gospel. It was also voted the number one requested song of 1981 by American radio DJs. Edgel Groves was the original singer to record ""Footprints in the Sand"" and the only singer to have"
"The Unquiet Grave ""The Unquiet Grave"" is an English folk song in which a young man mourns his dead love too hard and prevents her from obtaining peace. It is thought to date from 1400 and was collected in 1868 by Francis James Child, as Child Ballad number 78. One of the more common tunes used for the ballad is the same as that used for the English ballad ""Dives and Lazarus"" and the Irish pub favorite ""Star of the County Down"". A man mourns his true love for ""a twelve month and a day"". At the end of that"
"Edgel Groves Edgel Groves is a recording artist/singer/songwriter who recorded the Hit single ""Footprints in the Sand"" based on the anonymous poem of the same name. in 1981. The song sold millions of copies and the record was #1 in ""country music"" and was a cross over hit and became #1 in Christian and country gospel. It was also voted the number one requested song of 1981 by American radio DJs. Edgel Groves was the original singer to record ""Footprints in the Sand"" and the only singer to have ""Footprints in the Sand"" as a hit in the music charts."
"scrapped. One in a Million (Guns N' Roses song) ""One in a Million"" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses. It is the eighth track on the album ""G N' R Lies"" and was released in 1988. The lyrics describe Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose's experience of getting hustled in the Greyhound bus station upon first arriving in Los Angeles. The song is notable not only for its controversy, but also for being one of the first Guns N' Roses songs that Axl Rose wrote solo. According to interviews, Rose wrote ""One in a Million"" on"
"In the Garden (1912 song) ""In the Garden"" (sometimes rendered by its first line ""I Come to the Garden Alone"" is a gospel song written by American songwriter C. Austin Miles (1868–1946), a former pharmacist who served as editor and manager at Hall-Mack publishers for 37 years. According to Miles' great-granddaughter, the song was written ""in a cold, dreary and leaky basement in Pitman, New Jersey that didn't even have a window in it let alone a view of a garden."" The song was first published in 1912 and popularized during the Billy Sunday evangelistic campaigns of the early twentieth"
"Another Brick in the Wall ""Another Brick in the Wall"" is a three-part composition on Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera ""The Wall."" All three parts were written by Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters. ""Part 2"", a protest song against rigid schooling, features a children's choir singing the second verse. ""Part 2"" was released as a single, Pink Floyd's first in the UK since ""Point Me at the Sky"" (1968). It became Pink Floyd's only number-one hit in the United Kingdom, the United States, West Germany and many other countries, and sold over four million copies worldwide. It was nominated for"
"of British rock band Wishbone Ash to write the lyrics to a song called ""Lady Jay"" which appears on the band's 1974 album ""There's the Rub"". David Rudkin wrote an episode inspired by the tale entitled 'The Living Grave' for the BBC 2 TV anthology series Leap in the Dark, broadcast in 1980. It also inspired Seth Lakeman to write his 2004 song and album, both called ""Kitty Jay"". Jay's Grave Jay's Grave (or Kitty Jay's Grave) is supposedly the last resting place of a suicide victim who is thought to have died in the late 18th century. It has"
"Digging the Grave ""Digging the Grave"" is a song by Faith No More, released as the first single from their fifth studio album ""King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime"", in 1995. Like the rest of the singles released from the album, it failed to chart in the US. However, the song became the band's fourth-highest charting single in the United Kingdom. The song was released as a single on February 28, 1995, before the release of ""King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime"". That March, the band appeared on the British television program Top of the Pops"
"to the Rafters"" for the wedding of Ben and Mel. Credited to: Bury Me Deep in Love Bury Me Deep in Love is a single released by Australian folk rock group The Triffids from their album ""Calenture"". It appeared in October 1987 and reached No. 48 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart. It was produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Echo & the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters) and written by David McComb, the group's lead singer and guitarist. The B-sides ""Baby Can I Walk You Home"" and ""Region Unknown"" were produced by Victor Van Vugt and The Triffids. The single"
"feet. As people realize he is dead, Nora denies him:""I don't know anything. My son died a few days ago."" The story evolved out of Nabokov's film script ""The Love of a Dwarf"" and he later commented on the ""cinematic slant"" of the narrative. Nabokov indicated that he wrote the story in 1929, although some argue that it was written in 1924. It is one of the earlier short stories written by Nabokov and takes place in England, in contrast to his usual Berlin settings of stories at that time. He was unhappy about the initial English translation and found"
"The phrase appears on more than 212,000 CWGC gravestones across the world. The phrase was selected by British poet Rudyard Kipling. Kipling had joined the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC) – the predecessor to the CWGC – in 1917 as its first literary adviser. Kipling's involvement with the IWGC may have been influenced by the loss of his only son John Kipling in the 1915 Battle of Loos. John was missing presumed killed in action (his grave was only identified in 1992) and this weighed heavily upon Rudyard Kipling. In discussing memorials to those missing with no known grave he"
"In the Deep ""In the Deep"" is a 2003 song written by Michael Becker and Kathleen York, performed by York under her stage name Bird York. The song gained fame from its use in the 2004 critically acclaimed film ""Crash""; it also appeared on York's album ""The Velvet Hour"". In 2006, the song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. York performed the song at the 78th Academy Awards ceremony on March 5, 2006. There was some controversy and question as to the song's eligibility, as it had appeared in the film ""The Civilization of Maxwell Bright"""
"winter winds rave <br> Far better they suit him the ruin and gloom <br> Till Ireland, a nation, can build him a tomb. Tone's Grave Tone's Grave, often referred to as ""Bodenstown churchyard"", was written by Thomas Davis (1814-1845), the Young Ireland leader, and published first in their newspaper """"The Nation"""". It was written following his visit to the grave of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown, County Kildare c. 1843 when he found Tone's grave unmarked but guarded by a local blacksmith who would allow nobody to set foot on it. The song mourns the failure of the United Irishmen and"
"album, ""A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing"", is a rendition of the lied. The song is used in the 2004 film ""Look at Me"" and the 2012 film ""Moonrise Kingdom"". The inscription “An die Musik” is the epitaph on Ruth Laredo's gravestone in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York (only a few meters away from Sergei Rachmaninoff's grave). An die Musik Franz Schubert composed his lied ""An die Musik"" (German for ""To Music"") in March 1817 for solo voice and piano, with text from a poem by his friend Franz von Schober. In the Deutsch catalog of Schubert's works it"